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Terra Museum Gains Art Director, Curator

September 16, 1997|By Alan G. Artner

John Hallmark Neff, a former director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, has become director and curator of collections at the Terra Museum of American Art. He will have curatorial responsibility for all works at the Terra as well as at a sister institution, the Museum of American Art in Giverny, France.

Neff was director of the art program and art adviser to the First National Bank of Chicago since 1984. He succeeds Stuart Popowcer, acting director and chief financial officer of the Terra since 1994.